System for tying skeins of beads



C. F. BUFFARD Y SYSTEM FOR 'I'YING ,SKEINS 0F BEADS I Filed 00... 16. 1923 Fs m 1 192 E93 Patented Oct. 28, 1924.

SYSTEM FOR TYING- SKE INS OF BEADS.

Application filed October 16, 1923. Serial'Nd. 668,950.

To all whom/it may concern Be it known that 1, CHARLES Fnnngors Bnrrann, a citizen of the French Republic, residing 122 Avenue de la Republique, Paris, France, have invented new and useful lm provements in a System for Tying Skeins of Beads, of which the following is the speei fication.

Glass beads, as well as ordinary metallic beads, are sold in boxes, or by weight; but beads of quality and, generally speaking, metallic beads are sold threaded in a slrein usually composed of 12 staples each carrying 100 beads and connected at the upper part by a ring of thread. 7

If this method has the advantage of easily permit-ting to take 100, 200, 300, etc., beads without counting them, since it suffices to pull 1, 2, 3, etc, staples, it has multiple inconveniences.

When a portion of the staples has been removed, the ring of thread does not bind the other staples and beads are easily lost as well as the advantage of this method of delivery; but the most serious inconvenience consists in that one or more staples can be easily removed without this removal being immediately visible at the time the beads are sold and the sale of this article is such that it is not possible to ask the client to count if the mass or skein is complete.

This invention has for its object to constitute a safety method of attachment which immediately indicates that the skein is complete. A Another advantage of the system is to permit to stamp on this fastener, which is preferably a metallic fastener, the number or reference, or the trade-mark of the beads. Actually, paper labels held under the ring of thread are used, but in most cases, these labels disappear or are torn away.

In the accompanying drawing given by way of example only,

Fig. 1 shows a skein of beads made in accordance with the invention. I

Fig. 2' is a view of the upper part of the skein after cutting of the small loops.

Fig. 3 is a diagrammatic view of a skein.

Fig. 4 is a perspective view of an apparatus for manufacturing the skeins.

Fig. 5 is a View of a modified skein.

Fig. 6 is a section of a sealing lead member.

F ig. 7 is a perspective view of a second apparatus for manufacturing the skeins.

F ig. 1 shows a skein 1 with its safety fastener 2 on which can be stamped any de sired marks. F ig. 2 shows at 3 the aspect of actual attachment by means of the ring of thread 41 holding all the free staples of P the threads constituting the skein. By using the new method of attachment, the as pect is only modified by the small loops 5 forming safety fastening 2.

As clearly shown in Fig. 3, the safety fastening is constituted by a supplementary thread 6 the ends of which are enclosed under a lead seal at the same time as the ends of the thread 7 carrying the beads.

The method of fastening allows also to pull staples as with the actual systen'i. it suffices to place a bond or ring 4 on the threads before cutting all the loops at 5', this being also shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 shows, by way of example, an assemblage distributing in the required number of staples any quantity of beads threaded on a continuous thread.

The thread attached by the pincers is caused to enter in a notch 9 provided in a small plate 10, then, in a notch in a small plate 11 the distance of which from the block 12 is adjusted for containing the required number of beads between the two small plates. Then the thread is turned about the pin 14, is passed again in the counting notches, surrounds the pin 13, etc, operation which is continued up to the required number of staples.

Then, the thread 6 is passed into the loops and the whole is released by pressing upon the lever 18, thus causing the pins 13 and let to re-enter and releasing the loops.

Fig. 5 shows a modification of safety fastening in which the required distribution of any number of heads is obtained by an assemblage of the same kind, Fig. 7.

The safety fastening is here constituted by a lead seal 16, shown in Fig. 6, which is crushed once the skein is terminated.

The threads symmetrically and regularly spaced apart when issuing from the lead seal permit to see if the skein is complete, or if fraud has taken place.

Up to thelastthread, it is possible by cutting to separate them one by one.

This safety seal applied here in the bead beads are concerned, one counts per skein containing 1200 beads, other beads are sold in skeins of 1800 beads and other quantities.

On the lead seal can also be stamped the indication of the number of beads per skein, this being necessary for the client, when he does not buy by weight.

hat I claim as my invention and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1, In a system of fastening for skeins of heads, a single thread receiving the beads, bent on itself a number t times so as to constitute staples of equal length and to form small loops, a second thread passing through said. small loops for retaining them, a seal connecting the four thread ends.

2. In a device for attaching skeins of beads, two parallel pins, placed at a predetermined distance and receiving the staple on which the beads are threaded and which is wound on these pins the required number of times, a lever for causing the pins to slide, so as to release the skein when it is formed, a comb-like member for guiding the threads.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification.

CHARLES FRANQOIS RUFF; .lll). 

